Word: moodysson
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...1970s, the American hippie movement had begun its transition from idealistic innocence to disco-influenced apathy. Not so in Sweden, where the idealism behind sex, drugs and rock and roll had not yet degenerated to three-somes, cocaine and leisure suits. Luke Moodysson, director of 1998’s well-received Show Me Love, tells the story of the Swedish commune Tillsammans, whose members are trying to piece their ideals into a life, until the arrival of one of the member’s bourgeois sister and her two reluctant children disrupts their routine...
...collection of cardboard cutouts demonstrating the falseness of leftist ideals and the hypocrisy of their self-superiority. Certainly not everyone there is happy together: We first see communers arguing about who will do the dishes and whether or not Anna (Jessica Liedberg) can go bottomless in the kitchen. Moodysson, however, goes a step farther and we soon see that they are not hypocrites, but merely people trying to live by unattainable ideals and failing to account for their own humanity: Anna has become a lesbian for political reasons and her ex-husband Lasse (Ola Norell) cannot accept it, no matter...
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